Motherly The Personality Description of Anna Karenin

343. It shows that Anna is brave enough to fight for her rights as a woman to live on her own dream. Anna also has bravery to struggle for taking he r son with her, “You want Seriozha in order to hurt me…You don‟t love him. Leave me Seriozha” p.390. However, Karenin keeps resisting Anna‟s willingness to take Seriozha with her, “Yes, I have lost my affection for my son, because it is associated with my loathing for you. But all the same I shall take him” p.390. Anna attempts to accept the reality that she cannot realize her dream to live together with Seriozha. She knows that she and Vronsky have done something wrong and she has made Karenin wretched. Therefore, in a dying condition, once again, Anna submit her courage to ask forgiveness to Karenin, “I only want your forgiveness, nothing, nothing more.” She also asks her husband to forgive Vronsky, “Give him your hand. Forgive him” p.439. Anna‟s bravery to admit her mistakes and to ask his forgiveness mollifies Karenin, and he finally forgives her, “I forgive her completely” p.440. Noticing Karenin‟s kindness to forgive her, Anna starts to realize that Karenin is actually better than her. He still becomes a dutiful husband and father after being betrayed by her. Therefore, on Seriozha‟s birthday, Anna secretly comes to Karenin‟s house to satisfy her longing for Seriozha and to tell him to love his father, “You must love him. He‟s better and kinder than I am, and I have been wicked to him. When you are grown up you will understand” p.566. Although she herself cannot forgive Karenin for not giving her permission to bring Seriozha with her, she is still able to see Karenin from his good sides, and to tell her son that he must love him.

B. The Motivations of Anna Karenin for Breaking Her Expected Gender Roles

In order to answer the second problem which deals with Anna Karenin‟s motivation to break her gender roles, the writer applies a theory of motivation. Huffman and Vernoy 2000 state that motivation consists of interests, needs and desires which encourage behavior toward goals para. 1. In addition, Adair 2006 says that motivation embodies the reasons of individuals to act negatively or positively p.89. In this part, this study discusses the interests, needs, and desires which underlie Anna Karenin to do positive or negative actions. To make it more specific, this study also applies a theory of motivation from Ryan and Deci 2000. By using this theory, the writer can divide the analysis of Anna Karenin‟s motivations to break her gender roles into two parts. The first part focuses on the intrinsic motivation and the second deals with the extrinsic motivation.

1. The Intrinsic Motivation of Anna Karenin for Breaking Her Gender Roles

Ryan and Deci 2000 state that intrinsic motivation is “the doing of an activity for its inherent satisfactions rather than for some separable consequence. If a person intrinsically motivated, he or she will be encouraged to act for fun or challenge entailed” p.56. From this definition, the writer can conclude that intrinsic